Hana's Suitcase

A Documentary

The Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Centre recently acquired a small suitcase belonging to one Hana Brady. She was born in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia in 1931 and deported to Theriesenstadt in 1942 and died in Auschwitz in 1944. She was 13. The suitcase came with no further information about Hana. Since then the Centre's director, Fumiko Ishioka made it her mission to find out more about Hana's story and has scoured the world for it. In the end, the search brought her to Toronto and George Brady, Hana's older brother and the only member of their immediate family to survive. Here, told by Fumiko Ishioka and George Brady, is the story of Hana's suitcase.